Phelps: From the Pool to the Golf Course

Updated Feb. 25, 2013 7:13 p.m. ET

Michael Phelps has traded in his swim flippers for a set of golf clubs. The 18-time Olympic gold medalist is the latest celebrity student of golf pro Hank Haney, on The Golf Channel's "Haney Project." Haney used to prep Tiger Woods to win majors. Now he's prepping Phelps to break 90, a goal Phelps says he recently reached.

For Phelps, who lived one of the more regimented existences during the past two decades, golf represents an opportunity to compete in venues that have a little more variety than 50-meter...